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Abstract
Proleptic argumentation is the highly valuable rhetorical tactic of posing an objection to one's argument before one's opponent has actually put it forward, and posing a rebuttal to the objection within in the same move. The eloquence of the most eminent orators, including Lincoln, as shown in this paper, is based on this skill. Six examples of proleptic argumentation are used to pose the basic problem that needs to be solved to start building methods useful for analyzing cases, and for helping an advocate to employ proleptic argumentation as a rhetorical tool. Four methods helpful for solving this problem are built from current resources already available in argumentation studies.